Your phone screen doesn’t have the same color range as the human eye – and AI widens the gap between digital images and the real thing

by News Feed Editor | Jun 1, 2026 | Science

A peacock feather in sunlight shifts from blue to green to bronze as you turn it. Photograph it, and this shimmer collapses into one angle, one exposure, one compromise.A digital image is not a record of what your eye sees. The standard color space that most digital...

3 bright planets light up June’s night sky — Here’s where and when to look

by News Feed Editor | Jun 1, 2026 | Science

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Your hands held out at arm’s length can be a useful tool for measuring the night sky. | Credit: Created in Canva ProThis is the month of the “Great...

Red stripes declared U.K.’s oldest art after being dismissed as a natural phenomenon

by News Feed Editor | Jun 1, 2026 | Science

LONDON — Dismissed as a natural phenomenon for more than a century, red stripes on a rock in Wales have been found to be the oldest known prehistoric art in Britain and northwestern Europe — created by human fingers 17,100 years ago, according to new research.An...

Astronomers discover a ‘lost world’ of black hole mergers: ‘It’s the astronomical equivalent of uncovering an ancient civilization’

by News Feed Editor | Jun 1, 2026 | Science

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.(Main) An illustration of merging black holes. (Inset) Black hole masses in mergers detected in gravitational waves. | Credit: Robert Lea/LIGO-Kagra-VIRGO/Aaron...

8 crested ibises released in Japan decades after extinction

by News Feed Editor | Jun 1, 2026 | Science

TOKYO (AP) — Eight crested ibises were released into the wild in a north-central Japanese town, decades after the birds went extinct in the country.The endangered birds took off from each of their wooden cages at a ceremony Sunday in Hakui city in the Noto region,...

A bachelor’s in rare earths? In China, there are schools for that

by News Feed Editor | Jun 1, 2026 | Science

(Refiles to fix URL to graphics microsite, removes dateline)By Lewis Jackson, Ernest Scheyder, Vijdan Mohammad Kawoosa, Claire Fu and Melanie BurtonJune 1 (Reuters) – Every year, several hundred young adults head to the steppes of northern China to learn about...